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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1048 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP See also:STUBBS [STUBBES] (c. 1555-c. 161o)  , See also:English pamphleteer, was See also:born about 1555 . He is reputed to have been a See also:brother or near relation of See also:John See also:Stubbs (q.v.) . He was educated at See also:Cambridge and subsequently at See also:Oxford, but did not take a degree, spending the greater portion of his See also:time travelling about the See also:country . He started See also:writing about 1581, and in 1583 published The Anatomic of Abuses . This consisted of a virulent attack on the See also:manners, customs, amusements and fashions of the See also:period, and is still valuable for its copious See also:information on those matters . In 1591 Stubbs published A Christal See also:Glass for See also:Christian See also:Women, of which at least seven See also:editions were called for, and he followed this with other semi-devotional See also:works . He died, probably, about 161o .

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